elasticpath asked:

Interview on maximizing the use of comparison shopping engines with Michael Lambert, CEO, MerchantAdvantage from the Internet Retailer Conference & Exhibition 2008 in Chicago. See all the interviews at www.GetElastic.com

Janet

benoit872 asked:

Scan barcodes with your iPhone camera and compare prices at thousands of online retailers. It is free and works on all iPhones!

Esther

Adam Jaylin asked:




The concept of price comparison has taken the online market by storm. And the popularity of this method is justified as well. Comparison shopping makes it really easy and convenient for anyone to find the best deal out all that are available in the market. The consumer is able to find the best available deals on a single platform, allowing the user to pick and choose the various packages in accordance with their requirement and suitability. The online market is flooded with a plethora of products and services and it becomes really tough for the normal user to hunt and select the best possible offer on the Internet.

So, in order to ease out the hassles of the ordinary consumer, the online retailers coined the concept of price comparison, that finds the best offers, list them under one e-shop and creams out the best deals and displays it for consumers that can be easily used. Normally, the comparison is done according to a particular product and service, that are placed before the user and he can choose the best deal out of it. However, the transparency and the procedure of any comparison portal should be taken into consideration while deciding your buy. There are some portals that are not as good in offering deals than others. So the focus should be finding the right place for comparison that in turn would help you locate the right kind of deal.

These price comparison websites could easily be located on the World Wide Web with the help of the various search engines. There are also some reputed players in the field of comparison shopping that promise to give you the best comparison. Further, the user should be wise enough to consult more than one comparison shopping portal before freezing his final deal. However, a lot of justifications have also come across that claim that there isn’t a much difference between the deals and it is futile to watch out for more than one comparison website. But, it is wiser still to be on a safer side and look out for other options as well.

Thus comparison shopping, if done with adequate research and analysis could be really helpful for your deal.

Ida

Paul Apartin asked:




Millions and millions of online searchers search for products on a daily basis. Since there are so many online retailers these days and the number of them is only growing, more and more consumers turn to comparison shopping websites to shop for a product their looking for and right there and then compare prices instantly.

Do you own an ecommerce store? Do you do any sort of online marketing? Well, for your sake and the sake of the success of your ecommerce business, I hope you do. One great resource of traffic and boosting sales is these shopping comparison websites. Have you ever shopped yourself at a shopping comparison website?

These websites promote themselves in search engines and other networks in two different ways. Since they are very large sites, they have good ranking in the search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing. Also, these websites do paid search arbitrage which means they do PPC themselves in engines such as Google to drive visitors to their sites and make money per click as well.

Regardless of how they operate themselves, how can these shopping comparison websites help you? If you have an ecommerce store and looking for more traffic and a significant amount of increase in sales, these sites may just do the trick. The way they work is on a PPC (pay-per-click) basis. So, you upload 10 products and decide that you want to spend.20 cents every time a visitor clicks on your product. So let’s say you sell jeans online. When someone types in Levi’s jeans and you uploaded a Levi’s jeans products, you are now competing against all other merchants who carry that same model jean and your listing, along with theirs, will come up to the user with the stores different pricing where then the visitor will have the option to visit the store they want.

The three major shopping comparison websites you should focus on at first are:

1. BizRate
2. PriceGrabber
3. NexTag

Google also has its own shopping comparison engine which you can find by going to Google and click on the product search. What is great about this for ecommerce merchants is that Google’s shopping is free for ecommerce retailers and it’s called Google Base.

If you’re wondering if Yahoo has comparison shopping, it sure does but it is powered by PriceGrabber. That means that if you upload products to PriceGrabber, they will also show up in Yahoo Shopping!

Dean

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Lawrence